Characterized by shortness of breath, asthma, or difficulty breathing; panting or gasping.
From Latin 'anhela' meaning to pant or breathe with difficulty, combined with the English suffix '-ous' to form an adjective describing the quality of labored breathing.
This beautiful old medical term appears in Shakespeare and ancient medical texts to describe people struggling for breath—it's exactly what doctors meant before modern terms like 'dyspnea' became standard!
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